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Podcast: The New Yorker: Poetry
Episode: Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and WisÅawa Szymborska
Description: Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read âTestimonies,â by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and âMap,â by WisÅawa Szymborska, which was translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh. Mortâs collection âMusic for the Dead and Resurrectedâ won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Fund.
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